Two new offerings from Sun widen the company's selection of high-performance graphical computing systems. The 333-MHz version of the Ultra(TM) 10 workstation comes with the Sun Elite3D(TM) m3 graphics accelerator, four times the cache of the original Ultra 10, and twice the cache size of Compaq's or Hewlett-Packard's best offerings, according to Sun. With a 2-Mbyte cache, 128 Mbytes of DRAM, a 4.3-Gbyte hard drive, and 19-inch monitor, the Ultra 10 costs $11,095. The 4-way Ultra 450 is Sun's first workstation to provide up to 4 Gbytes of memory, allowing users to manipulate extremely large data sets. It offers the company's highest levels of processor and I/O expendability, can support two Sun Elite3D m6 graphics cards, and can scale to include up to four 300-MHz UltraSPARC II processors. With one graphics card, two processors, 512 Mbytes of memory, two 9-Gbyte hard drives, and a 21-inch monitor, the Ultra 450 costs $32,865. Both workstations take advantage of the Solaris(TM) operating environment and the company's UltraSPARC processor technology to maintain 100% binary compatibility across Sun's entire line of scalable systems. Sun Microsystems Inc.: Product Code 4417
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